The Ladykillers

No film has been more forgotten in the Coens filmography than The Ladykillers, their stab at a 1955 British comedy set in the 21st-century American South. Like many movies we cover on this show, it falls into the realm of peaks and valleys. Everything Tom Hanks is doing? A peak! Joel and Ethan trying to write Black characters? A valley! As we try to untangle our feelings about this macabre and surreal film we also discuss Roderick Jaynes’ disdain for it, Irma P. Hall making Cannes Film Festival history, and exciting new theories about body odor. Plus: we mispronounce Apichatpong Weerasethakul!